Sisters of Salome /

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This text discusses the four women who personified Salome and performed her seductive dance, how Salome became a pop icon, and how her striptease became an act of glamorous empowerment.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bentley, Toni
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Salome > (Biblical figure)
Mata Hari, > 1876-1917.
Rubinstein, Ida, > 1883-1960.
Colette, > 1873-1954.
Rubinstein, Ida, > 1883-1960
Catell, Gunny
Rubinstein, Ida.
Colette.
Wilde, Oscar.
Allan, Maud.
Salomé
Women dancers > Biography.
Feminism and dance.
Danseuses > Biographies.
Féminisme et danse.
HISTORY > General.
Women dancers.
Tanz
Femmes fatales.
Dansers.
Biography
works of art.
Art.
Biographies.
Œuvres d'art.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Coletteâ€?s Breast
  • Part I. Salome: The Daughter of Iniquity
  • Chapter One. The Wilde Story
  • Chapter Two. The Dance of the Seven Veils
  • Chapter Three. The Salome Craze
  • Part II. Maud Allan: The Cult of the Clitoris
  • Chapter Four. The Crime
  • Chapter Five. The Vision
  • Chapter Six. The Trial
  • Part III. Mata Hari: The Horizontal Agent
  • Chapter Seven. Intoxication
  • Chapter Eight. The Little Dutch Girl
  • Chapter Nine. The Hindu Hoax
  • Chapter Ten. The Scapegoat
  • Chapter Eleven. The Legendary BacklashPart IV. Ida Rubinstein: The Phallic Female
  • Chapter Twelve. The Queen of the Nile
  • Chapter Thirteen. The Russian Salome
  • Chapter Fourteen. Diaghilevâ€?s Dilettante
  • Chapter Fifteen. The Male Martyr
  • Chapter Sixteen. La Folie dâ€?Ida
  • Chapter Seventeen. Salvation
  • Part V. Colette: The Mental Hermaphrodite
  • Chapter Eighteen. The Kiss
  • Chapter Nineteen. Sidoâ€?s Masterpiece
  • Chapter Twenty. Willyâ€?s Ghost
  • Chapter Twenty-One. The Barrier of Light
  • Chapter Twenty-Two. The Mature Seductress
  • Notes

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